Transportation put Seattle on the map and opened it to a plethera of economic opportunities. It should be recognizable by this point that this block isn’t flashy like pike place, but it’s been in the heart of some major infrastructure projects for the city and will continue to be as we saw in the plans for the Viaduct Removal section. This block has been all about the ease of transportation for the city and it’s people, while also displacing them for the greater good of the city. This has been an underlying pattern in this block and the city as a whole--as with most developing cities.

The city has opened and ceremoniously cut off the city from the waterfront at various times through its history. Each time with a good reason for doing so--by their understanding, money and transportation needs almost always playing a large part. With evolution of transportation, the waterfront evolved along with it and by default this block.

You can see an evolutionary change in transportation in one of the blocks very own buildings. The address 2114 Western Avenue originally used to be a horse stable type establishment. They would auction horses, house them for a fee for city dwellers and sell horse care supplies and accessories. But as we see with the passage of time the function of the building changes. With the rise of the automobile the horse became increasingly more obsolete. With this shift the need for updated infrastructure increased as we saw in every section of the website. The ads below show the transition from horse focus to car focus over a decade.

At one point the address changed from 2114 to 2116 but the building itself still standings in this block today. It’s a local brewery feeding the already mentioned tourist economy of downtown Seattle. This block has ebbed and flowed along with the city and it’s needs. This block was affected by the cities economics from railroads to viaducts, it’s people changed the landscape to fit it’s needs and in the early days at the expense of the environment. The city has gotten wiser to its influence on nature but hasn’t completely mastered the balance. The city has grown, expanded and changed over the decades, it will continue to adapt and evolve just as its done countless times before. This blocks history and this building in particular are proof of that. Whatever the city wants, one way or another it'll get it or something close.